[Untamed]

My company adopted a redundant system because of the nature of our business - we use Norton for the Anti-virus, and ZoneAlarm for the personal firewall, messenger scanner, etc. ZoneAlarm has done me proud on a few occasions, however there is a noticable slow down on the system as the software looks for updates, scans the PC, messenger connections (like AIM, MSN, Yahoo, etc.) and other behind the scenes protective activities.

What you have to ask yourself is - what is more important, your PC booting 20 seconds faster and fewer annoying pop up messages about blocked hacking attempts, or knowing your PC is protected everytime you turn it on?

I consider myself a patient person who uses the internet with confidence.